Veeam replication is second to none.
September 05, 2023
Veeam replication is second to none.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We have around 120 tbs of data and using veeam as one of my main data replication strategies has served me very well. The support for this product is excellent and literally any issues I typically encounter are solved within the first few responses with their support team. That being said the easy to use platform around spinning up a backup is incredibly useful and easy to do. I was even able to walk through all of my helpdesk staff on how to do this and spin up guest OS's to recover dead files. I really can't say enough good things about Veeam and I'd highly recommend them to any person in the IT field looking to supplement their disaster recovery policies, or make a new one centered around veeam.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- NAS filers
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- License portability as your environment needs change
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Instant recovery of files
- Instant failover of VMs
- Ease of use to use their backups
- Response time for support for tier 1s could be better
- At least version 11 can be a little laggy
- UI could use some work.
Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Veeam Data Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Veeam Data Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?
Yes
Right now Veeam covers around 100 vms, none are in the cloud they are all local in my vmware host cluster. I have added more to this load since I started a few years ago in my current role, and it is still performing admirably with all of my data onsite and not in a cloud environment.
- The instant recovery has shot recovery times way down
- As I stated previously their support has been excellent
- My users understand that the time to recover has gone down
I wasn't apart of this conversation that made us go towards veeam. I do not know the reasoning behind us picking them as one of our main data backup vendors, but I can say that we typically try to be as forward thinking as possible. I'm certain in the past that we took a look at the main vendors out there and selected veeam with a rather easy decision.
We currently have a very small workload in the cloud and do not use Veeam to back it up. Reasoning behind that is that we use Azure's built-in recovery and data management systems that are already in place. For our smaller cloud aplications it is more than sufficient. Outside of that we do replicate our whole environment to an outside vendor.
I do not use this feature currently. I utilize their main VM recovery system as I've only ever really needed to backup whole vm's with structured data before. I wish I could expound on this by having used it in the past but unfortunately I do not have any experience with this particular portion of their product.